Wood-jacketed shipping-can



(No Model.)

W. Y. HORNE & J. DANZ, Jr,

- WOOD JAGKETED SHIPPING CAN. No. 371,586. Patented Oct. 18, 1887.

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WILLIAM YOUNG HORNE AND JACOB DANZ, JR, OF ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA.

WOOD-JACKETED SHIPPING-CAN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 371,536, dated October 18, 1887.

Application filed August 9, 1886. Serial No. 210,426. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, WILLIAM YOUNG HORNE and JACOB DANZ, J11, citizens of the United States, and residents of St. Paul, in the county of Ramsey and State ofMinnesota, have invented certain Improvenientsin \Vood-Jacketed Shipping-Cans; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification Figure 1 being a side view of our improved wood-jacketed shipping-can; Fig. 2, atop view of the same; Fig. 3, a bottom view thereof; Fig. 4, a central vertical section of the same; Fig. 5, a View of a portion of the interior surface of the wood jacket, showing one way of attaching the lock or holding strips thereto; Fig. 6, a vertical section of the upper edge of the jacket, showing a modified way of making and attaching the locking or holding strips or pieces.

Like letters designate corresponding parts in all of the figures.

In the drawings, A represents a can of an ordinary or any suitable construction; B, the side or peripheral part of a wooden jacket surrounding the can, and O the bottom part of the wooden jacket.

For the purpose of this invention the peripheral jacket B, cut, say, from wood veneer of suitable thickness, has the grain of the wood running up and down, so as to secure strength in a vertical direction. This is the proper or best way of arranging the jacket.

The side and bottom parts of the jacket are held together and upon the can by means of flanged hoops D E, one at the lower end and one at the upper end of the jacket. The lower hoop has an inwardly-turned flange, a, which forms an annular seat to support the bottom 0 ofthe jacket, while the peripheral part or body 6 of the hoop surrounds the bottom and lower end of the side jacket. The hoop is secured to the jacket by nails 0 c, driven through the body I; of the hoop and into the side part of thejacket near the lower end thereof, and it may also enter the bottom of the jacket when the latter is inserted inside of the side part, as shown. Any suitable means to hold the hoop in place, however, may be employed, as well as that shown in the drawings.

The upper hoop, E, which surrounds and holds the upper end of the side of thejaeket, also has an inwardly-turned flange, d, which projects over the upper end or a shoulder of the body of the can A, and thereby holds the jacket securely on the can when the hoop is secured to the jacket.

For the purpose of readily removing the jacket for repairing the can or any other occasion, we secure the hoop removably upon the jacket, and this constitutes a feature of our invention, as well as does the peculiar means of affecting this result, as follows: The hoop E may fit freely around the side jacket, B, so that it may be easily put on and taken off. We hold the hoop upon the jacket by means of two or three locking strips or pieces, G G G, properly made of metal, which are attached to the jacket inside of the hoop, and are arranged to extend upward inside of the flange d of the hoop and a little above it, as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 4, and after the hoop is driven upon the jacket these locking strips or pieces are bent outward and downward upon the flange of the hoop, as shown in Fig. 1 and by full lines in Fig. 4. The stiffness ofthese lockingstrips retains the loop upon thejacket with sufiicient strength. Then, when thejaeket is to be removed from the can, these looking or holding strips are straightened again, so that they may be drawn out and inserted again inside of the hoop-flange. These metal strips will ordinarily have sufficient tenacity to bear several bendings and straightenings, if required; or, if one breaks at any time, it is easily replaced at a trifling cost and with little trouble.

In Figs. at and 5 we show a narrow strip of sheet metal, G, such as sheettin, or sheet-iron, or sheet-brass, and nailed to the inner surface of the side jacket, B, by a nail or nails, f.

In Fig. (5 We show a short piece of wire, G, one end of which is bent and driven into the wood of thejacket, and the other end extends upward far enough to be bent over, as indicated in dotted lines, to secure the hoop in place. Not only does this removable attachment of the upper hoop to the jacket serve for the purpose of readily removing the jacket from the can and again applying it thereto, but it serves an additional purpose. It allows the wood of the side jacket, B, to shrink, if not thoroughly seasoned, without splitting in any- 1 part, as it would be liable to do, if the hoop and unlocking fastening composed of metallic strips or pieces secured to the inside of the jacket and catching over the inner edge of the flange of the said hoop for securing the hoop I 5 upon the jacket, substantially as herein speci= fied.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM YOUNG HORNE. JACOB DANZ, JR.

Witnesses;

LOUIS FEESER, J12, MATTHEW ELLIs. 

